Crime and crash

New Delhi Jan 27: A woman was booked for attempted murder after she was accused by her husband of throwing their two-and-half-year-old child from the staircase of their house in southeast Delhi's Pul Prahladpur area, police said today. On January 24, a PCR call was received around 6 PM wherein a man alleged that a child had been thrown from the staircase of house from first floor, a police

New Delhi, Jan 26: Keshavanand Giri, the aide of a BJP MP, was shot dead in Manhji, Bihar, Times Now reported on Thursday. Giri was killed after unidentified assailants opened fire on him. A police investigation is under way. More details are awaited.

Shahjahanpur, Jan 25: A 14-year-old girl died and some 27 people, most of them children, were taken ill after eating chaat sold by a vendor selling snacks on a handcart at Khanousa village near Gola city in Lakhimpur Kheri district on Monday evening. The condition of eight of the children was said to be serious. They were taken to the district hospital in Lakhimpur city. The others were admitted

Stockholm, Jan 24: Three men have been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of raping a woman in an assault that was broadcast live on Facebook, police said. The apparent gang-rape on Sunday took place in Uppsala, about an hour north of the capital, Stockholm, and has shocked the Nordic country. "This rape was broadcasted live in a Facebook group," police said in a statement. Several viewers of the

New Delhi, Jan 23: A 27-year-old Uber cab driver was killed after a speeding BMW hit his vehicle near IIT Flyover on Outer Ring Road in South Delhi on Sunday night. The accused, a young man in his early twenties according to witnesses, is on the run. The victim has been identified as Nazrul, a Gurgaon resident who hails from West Bengal. He is survived by a wife and two children, aged four and two

New Delhi, Jan 23: A man accused of raping a 26-year -old woman on the pretext of marriage has been granted bail by a Delhi court, which said the complainant had consented for physicalrelationsand knewtheconsequences of her act. Additional Sessions Judge R K Tripathi released the accused on bail noting that the complaint was lodged as the accused, a Delhi resident, was neither agreeing to marry

New Delhi, Jan 21: A 21-year-old JNU student was allegedly raped by two Afghan nationals in south Delhi's Green Park area, police said today. The victim, a second year BA (Honours) student of JNU, had gone to a pub in Hauz Khas village last week with her friend where she met one Twaab Ahmad alias Saleem, 27, an Afghan national, they said. Saleem, who lives here along with his Afghan friend

Surat, Jan 20: The ED today said it has arrested city-based financer Kishore Bhajiawala on money laundering charges and for allegedly using 1,000 fake IDs to illegally convert Rs 1 crore in old notes into new post demonetisation. The agency said it has placed "Jignesh Kishorebhai Bhajiawala (41) under arrest as per provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at about 11:45 PM last

Meerut, Jan 19: Sangeet Som, the controversial BJP MLA from Sardhana in UP , has been booked for allegedly screening footage from the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots as part of a documentary . The riots left 63 people dead and over 50,000 homeless. "A case has been filed against Sangeet Som under Section 125 (promoting enmity between classes in connection with election) in the Representation of the

New Delhi, Jan 18: Election Commission-appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams have recovered over Rs 64 crore in cash, including Rs 56.04 crore from Uttar Pradesh alone, and liquor and drugs worth over Rs 8 crore from the five poll-bound states. As per official data, Punjab has witnessed the maximum seizure of drugs worth Rs 1.78 crore (heroine and poppy husk) followed by